Newly elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who will take up his position as director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 1, is in the United States this week to meet with a wide range of stakeholders on global health issues. Tedros, in the first of planned visits…

As President Donald Trump of the United States plans his first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, word that Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir also has been invited to attend has sparked diplomatic controversy – and a swift response from the American Embassy in Khartoum. Bashir will travel to Saudi Arabia on…

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that African nations will continue to receive attention and support from the U.S., particularly in the fight against terrorism. “The continent of Africa is so important,” Tillerson said in remarks to state department employees. “From a national security view, we cannot…

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, who met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi at the weekend, will meet with United States President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday to continue discussions on the renewed Middle East peace effort. The Egyptian president reaffirmed a commitment to the two-state solution and emphasized the…

Eritrea says that Foreign Minister Osman Saleh’s visit to China has yielded a promise to again plead its case on Western sanctions, the government said Thursday. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi “reaffirmed that his country will raise the issue of sanctions imposed on Eritrea” in the United Nations, the Eritrean…

Nigeria has arrested five people suspected of planning attacks on foreign embassies in the capital of Abuja, security forces said on Wednesday. The five suspects were arrested there and in Benue on March 26 after a sixth suspect, 20-year-old Adamu Datti, confessed to being a member of the group a…

The United States launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles in an attack on a Syrian airfield early Friday, in what U.S. President Donald Trump said was a response to the use of chemical weapons on civilians in Idlib earlier in the week. About 60 missiles were launched from the USS Ross…

The Egyptian president continues his official visit in Washington D.C., with a planned meeting between Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Jordanian leader King Abdullah II on Tuesday, the Middle East News Agency reports. Abdullah plans to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Israeli media outlets say that Egypt and Jordan…

Concerned about the apparent failure of the CENCO-mediated political agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United States has urged both Congolese government officials and the Rassemblement opposition coalition to redouble their efforts to overcome their disagreements. “The United States is disappointed by lack of progress in implementation of…

A global human rights organization is calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to begin an inquiry into violations in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is an epicenter of the violence and political crisis that also has afflicted North Kivu, Kinshasa and other regions….

The United States plans a new ban on in-flight electronic devices aboard airplanes flying from at least 10 locations in the Middle East and North Africa, according to reports. American officials tell the Associated Press that the ban, which will be announced on Tuesday, covers nonstop flights from Egypt originating in…

Having trouble logging on to some websites based in the United States? You’re not alone, because Amazon Web Services experienced a massive blackout Tuesday that’s affected many of their own products and a number of clients. While the outage is concentrated on the East Coast of the United States, it’s…

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, known for writing epic blog posts and think pieces published on his website, said Friday that Western liberals need a dose of “Trump therapy” to help cure their short-sightedness when it comes to views on the foreign affairs of both the United States and Russia,…

It was a Valentine’s Day to remember for Ethiopian athlete Feyisa Lilesa, who was reunited with his wife and children in the United States on Tuesday. Feyisa, an Olympic silver medalist in Brazil whose raised-arm protest in solidarity with the Oromo people helped to bring global awareness to Ethiopian human…

With so much attention focused on United States immigration policy, the Pew Research Center issued an update Tuesday that looks at data about African immigrants and their growing presence in the U.S. There were 2.1 million Africans living in the U.S. in 2015, more than double the number of 881,000…

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